One minute interview: AL Kennedy

Arifa Akbar

Arifa Akbar is literary editor of The Independent and i newspapers. She has worked at The Independent since 2001 as a news reporter and arts correspondent before joining the books desk in 2009. She was a judge for the Orwell Prize for books 2013, and the Fiction Uncovered Prize 2014.

Daniel Ellsberg. He was Vietnam’s [Edward] Snowden. He used to work for the Rand corporation, and was an Establishment figure who made a very big journey to leak vast amounts of information. He wasn’t a journalist. He was just a guy who mistakenly thought that if you supply accurate information to politicians, they will use it responsibly. The interesting thing is nothing has changed.

AL Kennedy’s ‘The Death Pit’ is the first of a Doctor Who Time Trips series of digital shorts, published by BBC Books